Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...distinctions; and when Harper's Weekly classes the innocent extravaganza of the Harvard freshmen at Boston Music Hall in the same class with the recent kidnapping and hazing affairs at other colleges - then we claim that it shows lack of discrimination and of fairness. We entirely agree with that journal, however, when it says, "There should be an active public opinion in college, which, by condemning lawlessness and outrage as unmanly, would tend strongly to suppress them. Rioters within or without college walls must be dealt with by the courts, but it concerns every man who respects his college...
...valuable Library Journal is declared to be at last self-supporting by its editors...
...English trade journal gives the following account of a curious New Year's custom which is annually observed at Queen's College, Oxford: "After a dinner given to people indirectly connected with the college, the senior bursar delivers to each guest a needle furnished with a length of silk, with the injunction, 'Take this and be thrifty, and begin the new year with industry.' Contrary to a common belief, this is not the condition of a tenure, nor does any advantage accrue to the institution by its observance. There is nothing particular about the needles either. To be precise, they...
Says the Boston Journal: "Mr. Stetson of the Globe Theatre deserves great credit for his enterprise in producing the Greek play. It is rarely that a piece is mounted better or presented with more regard to the accessories of a piece. We advise our readers to see this play, for it marks an important era in the local history of the drama. The acting of Mr. Riddle, Miss Cayvan, and indeed of the whole cast, is excellent." The general opinion of the press throughout the country seems to be that the Greek play at the Globe is a success...
...dispatch to the London Standard from St. Petersburg says: A semi-official journal warns France that to allow the Nihilists to appeal through the Paris press for money is incompatible with the maintenance of the good relations of the powers, and also with their duties toward one another...